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Mémoires d'Hadrien by Marguerite Yourcenar reads as contemplative, elegiac. These 12 books share its genome — matched by how they actually read, not just their shelf label.
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Carmina
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Religio medici
Thomas Browne · 1642
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Les contemplations
Victor Hugo · 1856
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Night thoughts
Edward Young · 1742
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In memoriam
Alfred Lord Tennyson · 1850
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Quo Vadis? Powieść z czasów Nerona
Henryk Sienkiewicz · 1895
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Rubāʻīyāt
Omar Khayyam · 1870
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John Donne Poetry
John Donne · 1633
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Brideshead Revisited
Evelyn Waugh · 1945
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Uncle Tom's Cabin
Harriet Beecher Stowe · 1852
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